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flood



I - noun
1. the rising of a body of water and its overflowing onto normally dry land (Freq. 5)
- plains fertilized by annual inundations
Syn:
inundation, deluge, alluvion
Derivationally related forms:
deluge (for: deluge), inundate (for: inundation)
Hypernyms:
geological phenomenon
Hyponyms:
debacle, flash flood, flashflood, Noah's flood, Noachian deluge,
Noah and the Flood, the Flood
2. an overwhelming number or amount (Freq. 2)
- a flood of requests
- a torrent of abuse
Syn:
inundation, deluge, torrent
Derivationally related forms:
torrential (for: torrent), deluge (for: deluge), inundate (for: inundation)
Hypernyms:
batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal,
hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle,
mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile,
plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew,
spate, stack, tidy sum, wad
3. light that is a source of artificial illumination having a broad beam;
used in photography (Freq. 2)
Syn:
floodlight, flood lamp, photoflood
Derivationally related forms:
floodlight (for: floodlight)
Hypernyms:
light, light source
Part Holonyms:
photographic equipment
4. a large flow (Freq. 2)
Syn:
overflow, outpouring
Derivationally related forms:
overflow (for: overflow)
Hypernyms:
flow, stream
Hyponyms:
effusion
5. the act of flooding;
filling to overflowing (Freq. 1)
Syn:
flowage
Derivationally related forms:
flow (for: flowage)
Hypernyms:
filling
6. the occurrence of incoming water (between a low tide and the following high tide)
- "a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune" -Shakespeare
Syn:
flood tide, rising tide
Ant:
ebbtide (for: flood tide)
Hypernyms:
tide

II - verb
1. fill quickly beyond capacity;
as with a liquid (Freq. 6)
- the basement was inundated after the storm
- The images flooded his mind
Syn:
deluge, inundate, swamp
See Also:
flood in
Derivationally related forms:
inundation (for: inundate), flooding, deluge (for: deluge)
Hypernyms:
fill, fill up, make full
Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s something with something
2. cover with liquid, usually water (Freq. 3)
- The swollen river flooded the village
- The broken vein had flooded blood in her eyes
See Also:
flood out
Hypernyms:
cover, spread over
Hyponyms:
flow, inundate, deluge, submerge, swamp, drench
Verb Frames:
- Something ----s something
3. supply with an excess of
- flood the market with tennis shoes
- Glut the country with cheap imports from the Orient
Syn:
oversupply, glut
Derivationally related forms:
glut (for: glut), oversupply (for: oversupply)
Hypernyms:
supply, provide, render, furnish
Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
- Something ----s something
- Somebody ----s somebody with something
4. become filled to overflowing
- Our basement flooded during the heavy rains
Hypernyms:
fill, fill up
Verb Frames:
- Something ----s

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